Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers saw their season end with a 31-14 drubbing at the hands of the Dallas Cowboys on Wild Card weekend. Before the final whistle, speculation was already rampant on whether Brady, who is now 45 years old, would retire for the second time, return to the Buccaneers, or move on to play for a new NFL franchise. The reasons for the nationwide intrigue are obvious around the player many consider to be the greatest of all-time but, on Monday, it became clear that Brady isn’t quite ready to make his decision.
Brady made his weekly appearance with Jim Gray on SiriusXM’s Let’s Go and, predictably, Gray asked about Brady’s future and whether there was any timetable for a decision. Brady responded with an answer that wasn’t exactly polite.
You think Tom Brady is getting annoyed by people asking him about retirement or nah? pic.twitter.com/B7u5SqlF8B
“Jim, if I knew what I was going to f***ing do, I would’ve already f***ing done it,” Brady said.
By the end of the clip, the antagonism wanes, but Brady clearly didn’t have a desire to answer right now. It’s a bit odd, though, in that Gray basically has to ask Brady this question, so perhaps a more prepared answer might’ve been wise. Alas, Brady has myriad options to consider in the coming weeks and months and, unlike any other 45-year-old quarterback in history, he would be in high demand if he wanted to keep playing.
When the Dallas Cowboys fell short on Sunday night in San Francisco, there were few non-Niners fans happier about it than Stephen A. Smith, who loves nothing more than trolling Cowboys fans and his Monday First Take sparring partner, Michael Irvin, after a Dallas loss.
On that front, Stephen A. delivered, doing a pre-show skit where he dressed as Pinky from Friday, badgering Irvin and then continuing on the show itself.
Smith relishes the chance to go over the top on his Cowboy hate, but not everyone at ESPN is a fan of the antics. His fellow NBA Countdown analyst Jalen Rose decided on Monday night that he’d stir the pot a bit with some tweets throwing considerable shade at Smith for “pretending to fake troll the Cowboys,” going after low-hanging fruit, and generally calling out sports TV shows for selling “clowns” to the audience instead of quality content.
What prompted this thread of tweets eight-plus hours after First Take aired is anyone’s guess, but Rose apparently couldn’t help but get his frustrations with ESPN’s most valued asset and the take-economy in general off his chest. It’ll be fascinating to see how this plays out, given ESPN’s investment in Smith, the fact that these two work together on NBA Countdown (which had been a revolving door of a cast until the last two years), and Rose re-upping on a contract extension in October. Smith would, of course, love to turn this into something for TV, but taking this to Twitter seems to indicate Rose isn’t interested in on-air banter for the aforementioned “dumb/lazy” audience.
Machine Gun Kelly is a polarizing figure. He’s been shaded by Slipknot’s Corey Taylor and Eminem while, on the other hand receiving support from Mick Jagger and Avril Lavigne. However, it looks like it’s not just the music industry that has conflicted opinions on the rapper-turned-rockstar. The film industry was also divided after the release of his directorial debut, Good Mourning.
Unveiled in 2022, Good Mourning has now been nominated for seven Razzies at the Golden Raspberry Awards. Though this may sound positive, it’s quite the opposite. The award show’s goal is to honor the year’s worst movies.
Surprisingly, MGK’s film is not even the most nominated — the Marilyn Monroe biopic Blonde is. But still, seven nominations is a lot. It’s nominated for Worst Picture, Worst Screenplay, two nominations in Worst Supporting Actor (Mod Sun and Pete Davidson), Worst Actor, Worst Director, and Worst Onscreen Combo (with Mod Sun).
Last month, it was revealed that MGK has been in a lawsuit against Fox Media because of his 2019 Hotel Diablo album. Fox Media had been hoping to use its trademark of the term “diablo” to protect the name of a character in its series, HouseBroken. Kelly’s representative claimed the network’s planned use of the term “diablo” was “confusingly similar in overall commercial impression.”
George Santos has spent the last month and change being buried under an avalanche of wacky, alarming, and sometimes wacky/alarming allegations. So far he’s known how to handle them: He denies them (or he admits them later), he refuses to step down, or he simply does nothing. But apparently getting lampooned across late night TV across numerous nights broke him.
I have now been enshrined in late night TV history with all these impersonations, but they are all TERRIBLE so far. Jon Lovitz is supposed to be one of the greatest comedians of all time and that was embarrassing— for him not me! These comedians need to step their game up.
“I have now been enshrined in late night TV history with all these impersonations, but they are all TERRIBLE so far,” complained Santos two days after Bowen Yang sent him up, in drag, on SNL.
Santos singled out one impersonator in particular for attempted ridicule: “Jon Lovitz is supposed to be one of the greatest comedians of all time and that was embarrassing— for him not me! These comedians need to step their game up.”
It appeared that Santos was once again taking a page from the Donald Trump playbook. Just as Santos, too, simply denies the many, many creatively out-there allegations made against him, he also did what Trump did when Alec Baldwin kept impersonating him on SNL: He called him bad. (Although Baldwin’s successor was the one who got it right.) Surely one good way to show you’re unfazed by mockery is to complain about it in a public space.
Last week, multiple late night chat shows did the same thing, enlisting a guest to do their best Santos impersonation. For instance, The Tonight Show tapped Lovitz, which Santos especially disliked. Yang followed that up with his take on the Aubrey Plaza-hosted SNL. The lesson: If you want to actually get Santos’ attention, which is hard to obtain, simply go on late night TV and make fun of him.
From the upcoming Senate hearing regarding Ticketmaster being held virtually and open to the public to seeing their beloved musician receiving praise from fellow pop star Lady Gaga, fans of Taylor Swift are having a great start to their week. Talk show host, The Voice judge, and Grammy Award-winning singer Kelly Clarkson continued in the Swift love fest.
Today (January 23), during the Kellyoke segment on her show, Clarkson covered one of Swift’s deep-cut songs, “Better Man.” Dressed in football jerseys to commemorate the NFL-themed episode, Clarkson and crew are ready for the game called love.
Passionately singing the lyric, “Sometimes, in the middle of the night, I can feel you again/ But I just miss you, and I just wish you were a better man,” Clarkson injects her own experiences in love into the heartbreaking track.
Although “Better Man” was originally written by Swift for her 2012 album Red, it didn’t make the project. Instead, the song landed in the hands country group Little Big Town. The quartet recorded the track and released it as the lead single of their 2017 album The Breaker. Eventually, Swift rerecorded and made the song available for streaming after falling out with the owners of her former record label, Scott Borchetta and Scooter Braun. During which Clarkson showed public support for Swift by tweeting, “Taylor Swift just a thought, you should go in & re-record all the songs that you don’t own the masters on exactly how you did them but put brand new art & some kind of incentive so fans will no longer buy the old versions. I’d buy all of the new versions just to prove a point,” to which Swift did.
@taylorswift13 just a thought, U should go in & re-record all the songs that U don’t own the masters on exactly how U did them but put brand new art & some kind of incentive so fans will no longer buy the old versions. I’d buy all of the new versions just to prove a point
There are two kinds of people in this world—those who Google “nightlife” when they’re exploring travel destinations and those with no desire to venture anywhere after 10:00 p.m.
Nothing against those folks who enjoy spending after-bedtime hours in crowded nightclubs, but “nightlife” just sounds like torture to me. Even during my somewhat wild college days, whenever I’d go out dancing late at night with my friends, the little voice in my head would say, “You know you’d rather be curled up on your couch in your jammies right now.” And it was right. I would have.
While some introverts may genuinely look forward to a night on the town, I’d venture to guess most of us don’t. By the end of the day, our social batteries are usually pretty tapped out, so a quiet evening with a movie or a book is almost always preferable to one that involves trying to make conversation over blaring music and strobe lights.
That’s why a parody of Whitney Houston’s “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” is being claimed as a personal theme song by introverts everywhere.
The video from indie pop band Sub-Radio has raked in over a million views on their TikTok channel and gone similarly viral on Facebook—and for good reason. With band members clad in comfy-looking PJs, the video opens with the caption, “When someone asks me if I’m going out tonight.” Then comes an introvert anthem that is all too relatable.
send this to your favorite introvert #fypp #indieband #alternativeband
First of all, has anyone ever told the lead singer he looks like Rob McElhenney? Second, “I’ve done alright up til now, but I’d kill someone not to go downtown,” is the most accurate reflection of an introvert’s internal evening monologue I’ve ever seen. Third, “My Squishmallow calls”? So accurate. 10/10. No notes.
If you’re someone who loves the nightlife, this song may not be relatable at all, but this is exactly how a good portion of the population feels. You know that person you see at the club who seems bored and aloof and maybe somewhat annoyed? There’s a very good chance they’d rather be sitting at home, listening to this song with a cup of tea and their cat. Genuinely.
“I have never felt so seen in my life,” wrote one commenter.
“I need to send this to people trying to make plans with me,” wrote another.
“This be my soundtrack on Friday nights 🥰,” shared another person.
One commenter dubbed those who relate to the video as “The ‘stay home club’ 😻🙌😻🙌😻.”
With so many pop hits about clubbing and partying, it’s refreshing to see those of us who aren’t about that life celebrated in song. We and our Squishmallows salute you, Sub-Radio.
Is Francis Ford Coppola, one of cinema’s most daring titans, in the middle of another of his famous chaos shoots? He claims he isn’t. In fact, Megalopolis, his already star-studded, self-financed dream project, appears to only be getting better. Indeed, a cast that already includes Adam Driver, Forest Whitaker, Aubrey Plaza, Dustin Hoffman, and many, many more has just added yet another luminary.
As per Deadline, no less than Giancarlo Esposito is suddenly joining the cast. Who will he play? Who knows! But it will be a reunion: Back in 1984’s Harlem-set period piece The Cotton Club, the future Gus Fring had a small role as “Bumpy Hood.” It’s yet another big credit for an already busy actor, whose recent/future credits include Netflix’s non-linear heist show Kaleidoscope, playing Adam Clayton Powell Jr. in the new season of EPIX’s Godfather of Harlem, plus another round with The Mandalorian.
Details about the plot of Megalopolis are still fairly vague. Here’s how Deadline describes it: “The fate of Rome haunts a modern world unable to solve its own social problems in this epic story of political ambition, genius, and dangerous love.”
Sounds like another ambitious game-changer from someone who’s never been afraid to think outside the box and swing big. On top of the aforementioned cast, Esposito will be joining [deep breath] Nathalie Emmanuel, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne, Shia LaBeouf, Chloe Fineman, Kathryn Hunter, DB Sweeney, Talia Shire, Jason Schwartzman, Bailey Ives, Grace Vanderwaal, and James Remar. Surely there’s time for Coppola to add another big name or two, or three.
It’s been over two years since the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and though justice has moved slowly, it’s moving. A lot of the more colorful characters that day have already done their time; some have even seen their political aspirations dashed. But it’s taken this long for one of the most memorable insurrectionists to get the book thrown at him: the dude who posed for a picture chilling the office belonging to Nancy Pelosi, whom he left a note calling her a “bitch.”
As per NBC News, on Monday a jury threw the book at Richard “Bigo” Barnett, finding him guilty of all eight charges he was facing. Barnett repeatedly told the court he regretted what he had done, which included not only storming the Capitol building but also allowing himself to be photographed with his feet laid out on the then-Speaker of the House’s desk, looking happy as a clam. Still, he disagreed with their verdict, saying he had ultimately done nothing illegal.
Barnett’s is scheduled to be sentenced on May 3. He’s likely to appeal.
Before he departed Pelosi’s office, his fate sealed, he reportedly left her a note reading, “Nancy, Bigo was here, you bitch.”
Shortly after being arrested and locked up, Barnett threw a temper tantrum during a virtual hearing. “I’ve been here a long time,” Barnett yelled. “Another month … It’s not fair … You’re letting everyone else out.”
Pro magician Kevin Li has dazzled audiences, celebrities and even heavy hitters in the industry like Penn and Teller with his impressive sleight of hand displays.
However, Li would tell you that one of his “most memorable” performances wasn’t for a sold out crowd, but for a single person who might normally miss out on his gifts.
A video posted to Li’s TikTok shows Li offering up a magic trick to a man who is vision impaired. At first, the man politely declined, saying, “I’m blind, so the magic won’t work for me.”
Without missing a beat, Li replied, “I really want you to experience the magic right now. So let’s try something.”
Placing a quarter in the man’s hand, Li performed a trick that relied on touch and imagination, rather than eyesight.
“Imagine this coin is made out of rubber, and it’s getting warmer,” Li instructed. From the man’s clasped hands smoke suddenly appeared, followed by gasps from onlookers.
“Do you feel it warming up?”
“It’s warming up!” the man replied.
The man was then encouraged to feel the quarter get “softer and softer.” Grinning ear to ear, the man opened his hands to reveal that, indeed, the quarter has magically transformed into bendy rubber.
“There’s always a way to experience magic,” Li wrote in the video’s caption.
The heartwarming exchange quickly went viral as people applauded how Li effortlessly made a traditionally visual medium more inclusive.
“This real magic is how quickly you pivoted and figured out how to do this for him. Amazing,” one person wrote.
A fellow magician added, “I’ve been doing magic for a long time, this is hands down my favorite thing I’ve ever seen in the magic community. Beautiful.”
“I’ve never considered that the blind are missing out on magic. Are there blind magicians?” asked one commenter. Li was quick to mention the legendary Richard Turner, one of the world’s most highly regarded card mechanics, who had also been legally blind since he was 9 years old. Yes, there are blind magicians. And in Turner’s case, there are extraordinary ones. No missing out necessary.
Being swept away by feelings of true wonder is arguably one of the biggest highlights of the human experience. It’s lovely that artists like Li work to provide that joy to everyone—because everyone needs it once in a while. Seeing quarters turn to rubber is undoubtedly cool, but sometimes kindness is the best kind of magic there is.
Even though companies with workplaces that make accommodations for disabled workers are happier and more profitable, there is still a huge discrepancy in workforce participation between deaf people and those who can hear. According to Deaf People and Employment in the United States, 53% of deaf people are in the workforce as compared to 75.8% of those who can hear.
One of the biggest hurdles to deaf people entering the workforce is discriminatory hiring practices, intentional or not.
“There are often layers of discriminatory hiring practices that make [workplace participation] statistics still hold true today,” the study says. “Such practices can range from the discriminatory language on the job ad itself, to the application & hiring process, and can even impact the promotion of deaf employees.”
A story out of Hope Hull, Alabama, originally reported by WSFA, shows that when companies give deaf people the opportunity to excel at their jobs, beautiful things can happen.
Pookie White, who is deaf, was a dishwasher at the Hope Hull Waffle House and wanted to get promoted to cook. But management was worried that it would be difficult for him and the staff because he wouldn’t be able to hear the orders.
However, management gave him a shot and he’s been doing a fantastic job on the grill. “I wondered how it was going to work,” Waffle House area manager Michael Clements told WSFA. To bridge the communication gap, White taught his co-workers some sign language and they enthusiastically picked it up.
“He’s half deaf and I’m wearing a mask, so I have to use sign language,” server Jessie Simmons said.
But Simmons learned sign language on the fly and now they’re a great team. “She’s slow sometimes,” White jokes, knowing the effort his fellow employees have made to make their arrangement work. “It gets on my nerves.”
Clements credits White’s co-workers for helping him succeed. “They could have just not wanted to do that and consequently, he probably would have failed at cooking,” he said.
The deaf chef has become a hit with people in the Hope Hull community. “He has regular customers who come just to see him,” Clements said. “They love the show. That’s part of the thing about Waffle House, we are right in front of everybody on center stage. He eats the center stage up.”
White likes to give customers a hard time when they’re placing orders and he breaks into the chicken dance when someone orders chicken.
“Pookie is the sweetest soul. He loves to joke with the waitresses, they give each other a hard time and it’s so funny. He knows when we walk through the door exactly what we are getting too,” Chelsea Milstead wrote on WSFA’s Facebook page. “I love him! He’s amazing and always makes sure the food is cooked to perfection!!” Jessica Beasley added.
“He is the best he knows our order when we walk through the door.” Mary Push Norman wrote.
Pookie White’s story is a great lesson for business owners and managers everywhere. People with disabilities shouldn’t be overlooked when it comes to being given opportunities in the workplace. When things may seem like a challenge at first, never underestimate a group of co-workers’ ability to step up and create an environment where everyone can thrive.
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